Here are a few updates on all of us...
Caleb
He is now reciting his ABC's and 123's. He loves to play his app games on our iPhone's. He has two app's in particular that he enjoys. One teaches shapes and the other teaches how to spell words. He is also starting to become more observant of my growing belly. He say's hello to his baby brother every morning. He knows the word brother, but we are not sure if he understands the concept of a sibling yet.
We also just recently had to buy him a new pair of shoes, our lil champ now wears a size 8. Just back in March we had purchased him a pair of brown sandals that were size 6. They fit about 1 1/2 inches too big, then the other day his toes were hanging over the front :-( Our lil champ is getting bigger by the minute.
He is running more and more, and starting to be a little bit more tougher to handle around the house. He has some how learned to defy us! He knows the concept of "yes" and "no," guess which one he chooses to use the most??!?!?! That is right, he chooses to tell us "no" most of the time when we ask him to do things.
He is getting better with clean up around the house. We have recently turned our spare/guest room into the boys play room. We decided to keep Caleb's old nursery the same for the new baby that is coming. We figured that Caleb would be very curious and want to spend more time brother.
Ryan
My hardworking husband and dedicated father. He has been very busy this week with CiCi's. Another manager is on vacation, so he is working longer hours with his district manager. Today we celebrated his 27th birthday. I made him pineapple upside down cake for dessert and then for lunch I made Polynesian pork meatballs with Calrose white steamed rice. He enjoyed it very much. We did not get him that many presents as he pretty much has everything. I decided on something simple and got him work socks. He is always on his feet, so I remembered to make sure the socks were very comfy. Caleb and I found some very inexpensive black socks at Ross that were very soft and comfy. I am sure Ryan's feet will be happy until he wears them down.
Ryan has also been very busy proactively working on our deck in the back yard. The deck is something we both decided to put in as it was more affordable than laying concrete. We also plan to grow the grass back. Caleb needs a back yard to play in, and this is a project that we plan to complete before the end of June. Caleb will have his backyard for the summer.
Me
I just ended my week break from school. I am officially back in school tomorrow morning. I am sort of excited to be back in the routine of school because I felt like I was not busy enough during my week break. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it to the fullest :-) My next class is MGT 307-Organization Behavior and Group Dynamics. I think it will be an interesting class. It seems that the material is this class followed my previous MGT 330 course.
I am now 22 weeks pregnant and the lil champ inside me dances all day long and through the night. I have not been able to find a comfortable position while sleeping at night. I am battling heart burn or acid reflux issues like I did with Caleb. The other night it was pretty bad for me. I barely got any sleep as the bed was uncomfortable and the tums did not kick in.
I see my doctor this Friday for prenatal visit, then we have another ultrasound next Friday to see how the baby is growing and to check the heart. The last ultrasound our lil champ would not stop moving so the ultra tech and doctor did not really have a chance to get a better look at his heart.
In the coming weeks, I will be keeping myself busy with organizing the baby stuff and getting items registered at Target that we need for this new baby. BTW... this entire blog I have been referring to the baby as little brother, baby boy, etc... I failed to mention, we have actually already decided on a name.
The thing is, doctors told us at the beginning that they were 85% baby was a girl. Then when we went in later for our second ultrasound, they determined, that the baby is indeed a BOY! Ryan and I had an agreement that if we had another boy, we would name him Thomas. Therefore, since we not expecting a girl like we though, our new son will be named Thomas Scott Richardson.
Well that is about all that is going on these days. We are busy as usual and just hanging in there :-) Life is grand as long as we have each other.
Will post more updates as they happen. We love you family and friends!
